January 2012

From the Desk of Pete Elliot

Here We Go Again!

This January we still stand at the threshold of the second decade of the 21st century. What’s to come in that decade is anybody’s guess. In our last INsights newsletter, Lief Morin, President at Key Info, wrote:

“It is the Hybrid Cloud that will represent the truest view of the future. The reality is that most applications and most organizations are still creating their Private Cloud visions.” The transition from Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud will take some time and effort. But it certainly looks like Cloud Computing will be the distinguishing technological shift of the current decade.

Improvements to human interfaces to computing resources represent another major technology shift that is well underway. Then there are storage requirements that grow to enormous proportions. Aided by Cloud Storage, this will be another huge growth area. Currently this phenomena carries the label Big Data and will become more commonplace as the capturing of data in all sorts of unstructured forms becomes commonplace.

Pete,

Marketing Director, Key Info..

PS: If you want to know more about Key Information Systems, visit our website at www.keyinfo.com.

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Key Information Systems is a leading technology firm in the western United States, specializing in solutions for corporate infrastructure, business continuity, virtualization, security and storage. Key is an IBM Premier Business Partner, AVNET Premier Business Partner and Microsoft Certified Partner. The company also represents brands such as VMware, IBM ISS, IBM System Storage N Series, IBM i, IBM XIV Storage System, IBM Tivoli, IBM Netezza, CODA Financials, Microsoft and Brocade. Key's virtualization and IT security solutions, as well as its high-availability and fault-tolerant solutions are backed by a complete range of professional services including critical assessment, financing, systems integration, installation, training and maintenance.

With one of the most knowledgeable and best trained teams in the industry, the company has been listed as one of Inc. magazine's Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies in Los Angeles and has received Leadership, Beacon and Fast Track Awards from IBM as well as a Top Partner Award from AVNET. Corporate headquarters is at 21700 Oxnard Street, #250, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, www.keyinfo.com, with additional offices in San Francisco and Irvine, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. An IBM-authorized Business Partner Innovation Center is maintained at the Woodland Hills location.

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